Empire and Imperialism: Europe. Few subjects have generated as much controversy as that of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because of the term's pejorative connotations, even attempting to define it causes difficulties.
Edmund Burke. From Conservapedia. Edmund Burke (born January 12, 1729 in Dublin, died July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, an orator, and a leading conservative political theorist who is still widely read and continue to shape conservative attitudes.
In THE RECRUIT, Al Pacino stars as Burke, a veteran CIA trainer who recruits James Clayton, a computer whiz kid, but the CIA phrase, nothing is what is seems, proves to be painfully true in this cat and mouse game of deception.